Hello everyone,
My family home unfortunately has a pretty terrible rabbit problem. We have tried fencing, chicken wire, hoops with overlying netting as well as chemical deterrents to stop them from eating all the strawberry plants. Our last hope is a very tall raised garden bed. My first question is, how tall in everyones experience is a garden bed required to be to keep out rabbits? And does anyone know of a reputable wooden garden bed kit that is tall enough to do so? I realize Birdies raised beds are an option but my family is not keen on the idea of metal raised beds. Has anyone purchased a bed from durablegreenbeds.com? They seem to use a composite wood/cement material and I’m not sure if they are actually as durable as they claim.
Thank you!
26” works for me but I have rabbits not hares
Thank you! Do you have any beds that are shorter that also seem to work?
If the kit you want is not that tall you can add a foot of fencing to the top
I started with this height because rabbits were eating some of my in ground landscaping. In California I had 12 inch beds but that wasn’t enough
Good to know, I’ve read online 2 ft is the number to shoot for but wanted to hear others experiences. Thank you!
If you had snowshoe hares this is what you would be contending with. Mountain ash trees, pots are about 18" tall, you can extrapolate how high they got.
And no, it wasn’t deer or moose or anything else. These were locked behind a very tall nursery fence and they left their fertilizer on the pots.
Wow…thats crazy! Luckily they aren’t out here in Illinois. We just have what I believe are common European rabbits.